Work experience
The following list intends to give a more detailed picture about the type of activities I have done during my previous works and projects. The list of supervisors can be found here.
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From July 2008 |
Consultant of the Hungarian Institute for Education Research and Development specialised as researcher, trainer and mediator of the Educational Mediation Service for its 3 years long project on ‘Introducing alternative dispute resolution into the Hungarian vocational school system’ |
From May 2008 |
Executive director of the Foresee Research Group Nonprofit Ltd. – Community, Communication, Conflict resolution, Cohesion Foresee Research Group is an interdisciplinary think tank providing research, training, project management, consulting and networking activities in order to prevent and reduce social inequalities; disseminate the principles and techniques of alternative dispute resolution; objectively measure the extent and forms of social exclusion; prevent and reduce prejudices and negative stereotypes in the society against disadvantaged social groups; integrate marginalised and disadvantaged social groups and advocate for their equal opportunities and rights. |
From June 2007 |
Consultant for the Family, Child, Youth Association in an AGIS project on implementing restorative justice in Hungary (research, translation, interpretation, group moderation, international networking, organisation activities) |
From September 2006 |
Lecturing at the Faculty of Social Sciences, ELTE University (the title of the course: Punishment and/or Restoration? Mediation and other alternative sanctions in the criminal justice system) |
From September 2006 |
Research and Training Director of the CISZ 2000 [Civil, Informatics, Sociology] Ltd. |
June 2006 – July 2007 |
External consultant of the Central Office of Justice (Ministry of Justice) in Hungary – consultancy in relation to the implementation of victim-offender mediation into the Hungarian criminal justice system |
From June 2006 |
Evaluating project proposals and monitoring crime prevention-oriented projects financed by the Hungarian Crime Prevention Committe |
January 2006 |
Member of the Expert Group reviewing the Handbook on Restorative Justice, to be published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in 2006 |
From November 2005 |
Expert commentaries on draft laws and training courses provided for the requests of the Council of Europe in different countries in the field of victimology and restorative justice |
July 2004 – December 2005 |
Junior researcher at the European Forum for Restorative Justice at the Department of Criminology and Criminal Law, Catholic University of Leuven; coordination of an EU-funded AGIS project focusing on implementing restorative justice in Central and Eastern European countries; Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ivo Aertsen |
November 2005 |
Preparation of an expert commentary for the request of the Council of Europe on a draft law of an Eastern European country on state compensation for crime victims |
November 2005 |
Internship at the Penal Mediation Service in Brussels (House of Justice) |
From September 2004 |
Official alternate of Dr Maria Herczog in the Hungarian Delegation of the European Economic and Social Committee (ECOSOC); participation in several study groups of the Committee |
November 2002 |
Organising two work-shops for lawyers, prosecutors, judges, policemen, probation officers on the possibilities of restorative justice within the framework of a research project of the National Institute of Criminology, Hungary |
From September 2002 |
Individual PhD research on the opportunities for implementing restorative justice into the Hungarian institutional system dealing with child- and juvenile offenders at the Faculty of Social Policy, Institute of Sociology, ELTE University |
From September 2002 |
Giving lectures and training courses in restorative justice for the Faculty of Law, ELTE University, Budapest |
September 2002 – September 2003 |
Research coordinator of the national survey on the ‘Rights of Students with Disadvantageous Background in the Public Education System’, requested by the Commissioner for Educational Rights at the Ministry of Education |
June 2002 – October 2003 |
Lobbying activities on behalf of the Association of Social Professionals as a member of the board |
June 2002 - February 2003 |
Co-editing the journal of the Association of Social Professionals, called “Halo” (Net) |
January 2002 – September 2003 |
As project manager of the Kurt Lewin Foundation creating a database and website about the European Union’s policies concerning the development of NGOs in the Member States in cooperation with eight civil organisations supported by the Hungarian Soros Foundation; |
May 2001 – October 2003 | Chief editor of a web-site on social sciences, called SzocHáló (Social Net; coordinating the work of the editorial staff comprising 30 university students, employed by the Kurt Lewin Foundation |
April 2000 – September 2002 |
Research and project-organising tasks for the Family, Child, Youth Association |
February 1999 - June 1999 |
Internship at the Probation Service of the 8th district of Budapest |
February 1998 - 2000 | International relations and organising the distribution of books at the Magus Publishers |